Pie-juice saver.



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(Application filed Oct. B., 1897.) (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS V. HERRIOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES W PRESTON, OF BARTON, VERMONT. 'Q

PIE-JU ICE SAVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 647,447, dated April 10, 1900. Application filed October 6, 1897. Serial No. 654,284. `(No model.)

Be it known that I, THOMAS W. HEERICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, (Allston,) in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Pie-Juice Saver, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for saving the juice of a pie; and the object of the same is to provide a simple and effective device for retaining the j uice of the filling within the body of the pie and prevent running out of the same at the edge between the upper and lower crusts, thereby overcoming the disadvantage of scorched and burned juice at the edge of the pie and the-unsightlyand uncleanly condition due to the juice spreading there# over and becoming sticky and troublesome Vin removal.

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The numeral l designates 'the improved device, which is in the form of a tube of noncorrosive material,preferably aluminium,and

having diametrically-disposed openings 2 and an upper fiared end 3.

In use the lower end of the device is inserted in the center of the pie through the top crust and projected into the filling, and the pie, with the device thus arranged therein, is placed in the oven or other baking-receptacle. As the cooking of the iilling proceeds the juice becomes more plentiful and rises in the tube, the openings 2 serving as ent-rance means therefor. The steam also escapes through the tube, and the upper flared end facilitates its exit and spread, and by thus liberating Athe steam its pressure is relieved from the in terior of the pie,`and tendency of outward forcing of the juice at any other point will be obviated, and the j nice will be thereby also drawn into the tube. After the pie is cooked and removed from the oven the juice wiil run back from the tube into the pie, the said tube being left long enough in the pie to permit this operation to completely ensue.

\ `By the use of this improved device a pie is rendered more delicious and palatable by pre serving the full flavor and juice, and the disadvantages heretofore set forth arealso entirely obviated.

The simplicity and cheapness as Weil as its usefulness will make the device a valuable addition to cooking utensils and to theart of making pastry of the character set forth.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- Y As an improved article of manufacture, a pie-juice saver consisting of a tube having the major portion thereof of equal diameter, and the one extremity iiared, the opposite eX- tremity being provided with diametricallyopposed openings, the device being disposed vertically when in use and supported solely by the pie, both ends being open and the diametrically-opposed openings being located within the interior of the pie and forming the sole entrance to the tube except the opposite open ends.

THOMAS WV. HERRICK.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. SCHILDKNECHT, WM. H. BROWN. 

